I met one at my 1st year of high school, he was my teacher. He always making joke about God / Allah over and over and over to us the kids when teaching in the class. We laughed not knowing what it was all about. But other teachers did not see it as jokes and he was arrested with the charge of abusing his position. He was released after about a year and could not find a job there and he disappeared.

Than again some 6 years later another one, he was my uncle in law (no blood relation). He told me that he thought God did not exist. Not long ago I visited him as a lost old man living in a room, divorced and all his children refused to see him (for whatever the reason). When time for pray I asked him to come along to the mosque, he refused. He did not hide it from me.

But I have severed our connection with him for good now, as he was irresponsible individual in presenting himself to the family.

I see all religions as a call to ignorance. Once there the ignorant must remain that way as a condition of their stature within their belief systems, become minions to them and then suffer a life of misery should they question them. This is not a natural human pursuit but a form of oppression that advantages none but a few who seek to control others for personal gain. Islam is an extremely transparent example of that and by that virtue it's very easy to understand how humanity is beginning to cobble together the courage to unshackle itself from the primitive antiquities that no longer have a moral code of any relevance.

I think the extremes of behavior mandated by the Quran are not what come naturally to any psyche. They are burdensome upon all that a person holds dear and, together with the imagination's conjuring of all manner of consequence should they openly reject the religion, life itself is on the edge due to the inner struggle with imminent threat avoidance. What freaking kind of life is that? Pass. I think that Islam's succeeding generations are eschewing it at a rate that we are now seeing in an exponential state of growth. I think one day it will become the antithesis of its origins and take to the world a passion for harmony few of the so-called western cultures have ever experienced. I'll be dust but for the species it's a comforting thought.